Jastrow: תַּרְמִיל

תַּרְמִיל, תַּרְמֵל, תּוּרְ׳ m. (leather) bag. Sabb. 31ᵃ גר … במקלו ובתַרְמִילוֹ the mean proselyte who came with nothing but his staff and travelling bag (I being without merit or ancestry). Y. Shebu. VIII, 38ᶜ bot. כיון … ותרמילו עליה חייב as soon as he puts his staff and his bag on that animal, he becomes responsible; Tosef. B. Mets. VIII, 17. Sifra Metsorʿa, Zab., Par. 1, ch. II התורמל חמשת קבים a turmel is a bag of five Kabs capacity; Kel. XX, 1. Ib. XIX, 8 התו׳ שנפחת וכ׳ a bag the inside pocket of which has become defective. Tosef. Bets. III, 17 ולא הרועה בתרמילו neither dare the shepherd go out with his bag (on the Holy Day); a. fr.—Trnsf. seed-bag, pod. Tosef. Shebi. II, 6 על מה נחלקו על הת׳ they differ concerning the laws of the Sabbatical year as applicable to plants in the stage of formation of pods, v. תִּרְמֵל.—Pl. תּוּרְמְלִין. Kel. XXIV, 11 שלש ת׳ הן וכ׳ there are three kinds of bags (with regard to levitical cleanness): those having the standard capacity (five Kabs, v. supra).